Summer. A time for baseball. Grilling. And if you’re at Optimizely, Summer Hack Week. I love Hack Week. It’s consistently one of my favorite times at Optimizely. As Optimizely’s co-founder, Dan Siroker, puts it: “If an idea was clearly a good idea, then people would have already done it. For this reason, a lot of […]
Feature Flags: 3 Use Cases for your Development Cycle
Feature flags allow you to slowly rollout your feature gradually rather than doing a risky big bang launch and are extremely helpful when used in a continuous integration and continuous delivery environment. However, when integrating feature flags into your development cycle it can be difficult to know where to start. I’m Asa, Optimizely’s Developer Advocate. […]
Powerful Feature Flags in Node Express Server
Feature flags allow you to slowly rollout a feature gradually rather than doing a risky big bang launch and are extremely helpful when used in a continuous integration and continuous delivery environment. At Optimizely, we commonly use feature flags to reduce the risk of complicated deploys like rolling out new APIs. However, building a feature […]
Powerful Feature Flags in React
Feature flags allow you to slowly roll out a feature gradually rather than doing a risky big bang launch and are extremely helpful when used in a continuous integration and continuous delivery environment. At Optimizely, we commonly use feature flags to reduce the risk of complicated deploys like rebuilding UI dashboards. However, building a feature […]
How Optimizely is Building a Culture of Product Experimentation
Why Product Experimentation? Before I joined Optimizely, I worked at Microsoft on what was once the world’s leading internet browser, Internet Explorer. For those of us who have forgotten about this great browser, here’s a screenshot: As an engineer, I was tasked to work with a product manager on developing an algorithm for determining the […]
